Since the release of the Murphy Report into the rape and abuse of children by 'religious' Homophiles/Peadophiles in the Dublin Arch Diocese we have heard the usual clambering from the usual quarters but already many of these mealy mouthed Government Ministers and their cheer leaders have moved on to new topics. We all know that the truth will never be told about child abuse in Ireland, not just in relation to the 'religious' child abusers but all of those abusers and their fellow conspiritors in 'civil' society. We all know about the children that were abused in our own communities yet we content ourselves knowing that it was none of our business, it was always someone else that was to blame, ah sure your man is a drunk or yer woman is a headcase.
We all know about the young girls who were made pregnant within the family and then taken down to CURA in Dublin to get the child secretly adopted. This disposal of evidence in any other crime would see people face ten years in jail, but not in Ireland, 20 people can know about the rape and subsequent pregnancy of a child and they need not worry about facing prosecution. We all know about the young girl that was taken over to England to get rid of 'her' shame, we all know about the abusers who hang off both sides of the Altar rails on a Sunday morning.
Oh yes we have all contented oursleves to applaud at the conviction of a few high profile abusers now and again, its easier to look at the front pages of the Lurid Star than to look up stairs in our own bedrooms. Oh yes men and women can content themselves that the crimes committed by the 'religious' rapists were much greater crimes than those committed by themselves. People try to seperate physical abuse from sexual abuse, however, there is no seperation, most children abused have first been objectivied by their abusers, the abuser has to subjectivy his/her victims this makes their crimes more normal "she/he was always a bad child", this physical abuse is easily transferred into sexual abuse depending on access to and control over the child.
I like to call this aspect of abuse Causal Theory it is where we as a society accept that the woman beating her child in the people carrier in front of us in traffic is none of our business, we therefore condem this child to being the possession of that woman when in fact that child is a member of our community and society, if we allow that child to be physically abused in public then what is or concern if that child is sexually abused in private. The greatest example of this Causal Behaviour was to be found in relation to Northern Ireland, for decades groups of men/women took children from their homes tortured, mutilated, raped and on occassion murdered them under the guise of 'anti-social behaviour' the reality was that many of these victims had actually disclosed to someone in the community that they had been sexually abused by a member of one of the politico-criminal gangs controlling their areas IRA, UDA etc etc. These men/women were able to spin their propaganda without question or investigation we the public contented oursleves that the activities of these Homophiles/Peadophiles was acceptable and we went about our normal business. It was due to this care less attitude that the body of 17 year old Columbia Mc Veigh remains un-discovered in Monaghan after he was kidnapped, abused and murdered by so called 'republicans' these child abusers have more in common with Myra Hindley and Ian Huntley than Padraig Pearse.
Yes many have jumped up and down these past days, many have pointed the finger, the reality is of course that few want an open and honest discussion about child rape/abuse in this country, if such honesty were to prevail there would be many empty chairs around the Christmas table this year whether that be in Monaghan, Cork or any other county in this country.
